Origen's Influence on Western Christian Tradition

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  • Tkachev Eugeny V. Moscow Theological Academy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31802/METAFRAST.2022.7.1.006

Keywords:

Origen, Origenism, theology, Latin patristic, criticism of Origenism, free will, medieval theology, Reformation

Abstract

The article discusses the main directions of Origen's in uence on the Latin Christian tradition of the 4th-15th centuries, on the theologians and philosophers of the Renaissance, Reformation and Modern Ages. In considering each period in the form of a brief overview, is revealed a circle of key authors and texts that has experienced the in uence of Origen in exegesis, theology and mysticism; the manifestations of two tendencies are compared: one that sympathizes with Origen and one that criticizes his unorthodox views. The main attention is paid to determining the ways in which Origen's writings and ideas penetrated the West, as well as the genetic continuity of the Western European Origenist tradition up to the beginning of the 19th century.

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Author Biography

Tkachev Eugeny V., Moscow Theological Academy

Master of Theology and the History of Ancient Orient, Senior Teacher at the Departments of Philology and Theology at the Moscow Theological Academy

Holy Trinity-St. Sergius Lavra, Sergiev Posad 141300, Russia

tkevgen@gmail.com

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2022-09-15

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Tkachev Е. В. (2022). Origen’s Influence on Western Christian Tradition. The Metaphrast, (1 (7), 112–139. https://doi.org/10.31802/METAFRAST.2022.7.1.006

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